The 21st-Century Poetics Series & Small Press Traffic are thrilled to
host a surprise appearance by

BILL LUOMA and TOM RAWORTH

Thursday, February 19
at the Miles House aka the Berkeley Center for Writers
2275 Virginia St. between Spruce and Arch in North Berkeley

7 pm potluck, 8 pm (sharp) readings

This event will be collaboratively funded; donations in the form of food,
drink, folding chairs, or the usual (sliding scale, $0-10) gratefully
accepted.

Bill Luoma was born in San Francisco in 1960 and earned degrees in chemistry
and computer science. His latest works include Works & Days (The Figures,
1998), Dear Dad (Tinfish, 2000), New Mannerist Tricycle (with Lisa Jarnot &
Rod Smith, Beautiful Swimmer, 2000), PeaceNick (IATH, 2002), % (No Press,
2004), and Radio Grasshopper (a play; SPT, 2004). He is also a member of
the Subpress collective, through which he recently edited Scott Bentley's
The Occasional Tables. He lives in Oakland.

Tom Raworth was born in London just before the Second World War and is
living in Cambridge during the Third One. For more than forty years he has
worked, written, printed, published, taught, collaged, travelled, and
indulged the usual physical functions. He likes spicy foods, and needs more
light as he gets older. His Collected (not Complete) Poems was published in
the UK by Carcanet Press in 2003.